Where did blockchain come from
From the perspective of technology and architecture, I will tell you my understanding of blockchain in common language
what is blockchain? In a word, blockchain is a storage system. To be more specific, blockchain is a distributed storage system without an administrator and each node has all the data
What are the common storage systems like
as shown in the figure above, the bottom is data, and the top can write data. A space to store data, a software to manage data, provide an interface to write data, this is the storage system. For example, MySQL is the most common storage system
What are the problems of ordinary storage system? There are at least two common problems
the first is the problem of non high availability. There is a dangerous place for data. In technical terms, data is not highly available
The second problem is that there is only one write point. In technical terms, it is a single point of control
How do ordinary storage systems usually solve these two problems
in fact, MySQL can do a master-slave synchronization of al master, master-slave synchronization of al master, two nodes can be written at the same time. If you want to do a multi room multi live data center, in fact, multi room multi live data synchronization. What we should emphasize here is that multi-point writing often leads to the consistency problem of writing conflicts. Take MySQL as an example, suppose that the attribute of a table is self incrementing ID, then the data in the database is 1234 now. If one of the nodes writes and inserts a piece of data, it may become 5, and then these 5 pieces of data are synchronized to another master node, Before synchronization, if another write node inserts a piece of data, a piece of data with self incrementing ID of 5 will be generated. Then, after the generation, synchronize to another node, and the synchronized data will conflict with the two local 5's after it arrives, which will lead to synchronization failure and write consistency conflict. This problem will occur in the case of multi-point writing
how to ensure consistency in multi-point writing
the reform "Swan class" gives you more technical work
in terms of application fields, the financial instry is the most suitable and most likely to cause change first. Finance and the development of science and technology have been inseparable. Financial innovation with the help of modern information technology has become the main mode of competition in the financial instry. Blockchain is undoubtedly the next key technology, which brings huge imagination
however, at present, the blockchain is still in the experimental stage, but the capital has quickly followed up the layout. According to the analysis report on market outlook and investment strategic planning of China's Internet finance instry released by the foresight Instry Research Institute, the amount of venture capital in the blockchain field increased by more than 200 times from US $2 million to US $469 million from 2012 to 2015, and about 205 venture capital institutions participated in the investment.
digital economy and blockchain Technology: he is one of the earliest scholars engaged in blockchain technology in China. He has proposed and developed such theoretical methods as smart contract engineering (SCE), legal code technology, verification as a service (VAAs), etc. in the fields of combination of digital economy and blockchain, planning and consulting of digital economic Park, digital governance of blockchain, and so on Blockchain scalability, Multi Chain interconnection and blockchain formal verification technology have in-depth research and patent achievements. He presided over the research and development of Beihang blockchain series procts, including various forms of blockchain systems with independent intellectual property rights, browsers, monitors, deployment tools and blockchain big data management system (opendata)
distributed parallel computing and network: he has been engaged in cluster computing system, high-performance computing, aerospace electronic bus, and integrated network information technology research in complex computing environment for a long time. He proposed and studied the theory of reconfigurable multi cluster computing based on wolf pack and applied it to practice, and developed several application software systems
formal design and verification methods: in close cooperation with irit and INRIA, we have established a Sino French joint research laboratory for formal methods, studied model driven formal design and verification methods, proposed a number of innovative extension technologies based on AADL and synchronous language signal, and developed a number of model transformation, model validation and verification methods Verification and automatic code generation tools
in recent years, he has published more than 60 papers on SCI / EI retrieval in important academic journals at home and abroad, edited new technologies of network computing (416 pages, published by Science Press in 2001), and cooperatively completed the national authoritative textbook introction to distributed computing system (490 pages, published by Tsinghua University Press in 2014), which won the first prize of 2016 textbook, It has been adopted by more than ten key universities. He has successively presided over and participated in a number of National Natural Science Fund, national key R & D projects, 863 major projects, Junkou 863 project, National Nuclear high-tech foundation project, aerospace fund, and a number of important engineering projects in aerospace field. He won more than 30 national invention patents and soft works, won the five-year achievement award of aviation fund in 2015, and won the second-class innovation achievement award of Instry University Research Institute in 2018.
a day ago, Sheng Songcheng, counselor of the people's Bank of China and executive vice president of China Europe Lujiazui Institute of international finance, also said that the future of blockchain is to serve the real economy“ If blockchain and virtual currency are combined, and blockchain is mainly focused on virtual currency, I don't think blockchain will have a future. " Sheng Songcheng said
Li Lihui, head of the blockchain research working group of China mutual Finance Association and former president of Bank of China, believes that the future development direction of blockchain is large-scale application. In his view, how to achieve large-scale application depends on four factors: efficiency, cost, reliability and safety, and system
Zhu Min, former vice president of Bank of China, central bank and IMF, and now president of National Institute of finance of Tsinghua University, said at the Boao Forum: "when talking about blockchain, we should first separate blockchain from bitcoin, which is not a concept. As a technology, blockchain is revolutionary and unlimited in the future. Blockchain technology will have great application prospects in the future, and the future is very good. "
"the combination of blockchain and virtual currency has no future"
as early as 2014, Sheng Songcheng published an article in an authoritative journal, explaining that virtual currency is not currency in essence from the origin and essence of currency
in his view, if virtual currency overflows, monetary policy can not be implemented, and monetary policy is one of the main means of macroeconomic regulation and control in the world
according to him, when virtual currency first came out, the attitude of central banks was not unified“ But up to now, we have basically unified our views, at least we do not recognize it as currency, because it will hinder the implementation of the whole monetary policy. " Sheng Songcheng said< As early as November 20, 2013, Yi Gang, who was also vice president of the people's Bank of China, first talked about bitcoin at a forum. At that time, he said that from the perspective of the central bank, it was impossible to recognize the legitimacy of bitcoin in the near future. However, he also believes that bitcoin trading, as a kind of trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate
at that time, Yi Gang's statement was interpreted as good news by some bitcoin investors. They believed that although the regulatory authorities did not recognize the legitimacy of bitcoin, they did not characterize it as illegal and would not directly interfere in the trading of bitcoin. But unexpectedly, the price of bitcoin fell to 4150 yuan the next day.